Working With Your Parks & Recreation Department to Develop Sport Tourism

Summary:

The session will focus on the development of positive partnerships with local municipal parks and recreation departments to develop strategic plans for sport tourism and the economic effect of sports events on the economy.

Attendees will learn how to effectively develop partnerships with local parks and recreation departments to gain support on the value of sport tourism on the local economy. Focus will be on how to provide the knowledge and expertise on how to leverage this information so that boards and administrators can recognize the value of working with sports commissions to prove that sports events can be economic engine for the local business community.